Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg on Monday (19 December) showed off his very own artificial intelligence (AI) system that he created in his spare time this year. Inspired by Jarvis, the virtual assistant created by Tony Stark in Marvel’s Iron Man comics, Zuckerberg said his personal challenge for 2016 was to build a simple AI system to run his household.

“My goal was to learn about the state of artificial intelligence – where we’re further along than people realise and where we’re still a long ways off,” Zuckerberg wrote in a post. “These challenges always lead me to learn more than I expected, and this one also gave me a better sense of all the internal technology Facebook engineers get to use, as well as a thorough overview of home automation.”

Zuckerberg said he wanted Jarvis to be able to learn his “tastes and patterns”, control his home including lights, temperature, appliances, security and music, pick up new words and concepts and even entertain his daughter Max. Jarvis uses several artificial intelligence techniques such as natural language processing, speech recognition, facial recognition and reinforcement learning written in Python, PHP and Objective, he said.

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